Read the whole post here.Less than 10% of the students I work with have any desire to link up education with life goals. And I’m beginning to wonder if there may be good reasons for that. How many of my good friends are doing what they intended to do when they started college? Are the ideas of “preparation” and “career” starting to have entirely different meanings than in the past? I’m beginning to wonder if factors like technology, mobility, awareness of changing culture, even, strange as it may sound, certain aspects of generational immaturity and postmodern culture are combining into a whole new version of “career” path, and undermining education as we know it.
This entire situation can drive a traditional, “good guy” teacher like myself into despair. Does my English class matter? Do my efforts to creatively teach Shakespeare matter? Is the whole notion of “staying in school” questionable, and do my students possibly have the moral high ground when they despise and detach from the educational experience?
Friday, March 23, 2007
iMonk on Education
iMonk may be rethinking his philosophy of education. He says,
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wow...I am personally experiencing this and I think many from our generation have, and only more to come. College is often perceived as an easy place to party and then magically everyone gets jobs. I'm now getting educated in artist management...not from an 80,000 dollar school but getting paid to be an assistant, and within 4 days I've learned more than three months of reading books - guarantee it! School need to be much harder to stand up to real world experience. Wow...listen to my soap box!
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